The secret agent: a simple tale (Record no. 559)
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| fixed length control field | 01284cam a2200157ua 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0192834770 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823.912 |
| Item number | CON/T |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Conrad, Joseph |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The secret agent: a simple tale |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Oxford |
| Name of publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year of publication | 1998 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxxix,317p. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Oxford World's Classics |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats, and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.<br/><br/>Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and savage butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques. |
| 650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | English literature- Fiction |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BK |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Collection code | Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Stack | Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 23/05/2014 | 150.00 | 823.912 CON/S | 03663 | BK |